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The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced it has awarded three grants as part of the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program. These grants of $500,000 each are being awarded to the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians in Lincoln, Ore., and two Alaska Native villages: the Village of Clarks Point and the Native Village of Selawik.

Tribal leaders and advocates from across the country shared that message in a roundtable discussion with the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on Jan. 12, during which they aired concerns and grievances about their communities’ lack of access to viable broadband connections.

Southeast Alaska’s regional Tribal government will pilot its new broadband internet program in Wrangell, which it says will, eventually, be available to…

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Construction of cables under Arctic waters between England and Japan, and overland from Prudhoe to Anchorage inching forwardAn ambitious project that…